Ex-con and notorious fake heiress scammer Anna Sorokin looks set to star in her own reality TV show while she is still under house arrest.
The show, currently titled Delvey’s Dinner Club, will follow Sorokin, 32, in her apartment in Manhattan, New York City, as she hosts dinner parties for the likes of actors, musicians, socialites and journalists.
The evenings in her East Village home are expected to be catered for by chefs and feature chats about her experience of the criminal justice system, her time under house arrest, how she intends to rebuild her image and her plans for the future.
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Since last year, Sorokin has been on house arrest after reportedly apologising for her crimes at a previous parole hearing and being judged no danger to the public, having served less than two years of of a 12-year sentence imposed in 2019 for larceny, and visa offences,
Daily Star reported two years ago how brazen Sorokin had been released despite posing as a wealthy German heiress named Anna Delvey to swindle banks, hotels, friends and the city’s elite out of more than $200,000 (£161,000).
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She enjoyed a luxury lifestyle in which she lived in a lavish New York hotel and ate out at high-end restaurants..
In reality, she was not what she seemed – born to Russian parents and raised in Germany, she moved to New York City in 2013 to begin her life of crime, which included faking financial documents to back up her claims of having millions in trust funds.
For Delvey’s Dinner Club, Sorokin is partnering with Butternut, a production company run by former Food Network president Courney White, and media mogul Bren Montgomery of Wheelhouse Entertainment.
Sorokin said: “There’s nothing like the experience of bringing together a curated group of friends to share life stories and enjoy a great culinary experience.
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“I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with Wheelhouse and Butternut to bring my vision to a wider audience and share a glimpse of the real Anna Delvey.”
However, Sorokin is no stranger to television – Netflix is said to have paid $320,000 (£248,000) for the rights to tell the story of how she duped banks by pretending to be a heiress with a $60million trust fund.
She was portrayed by actress Julia Garner in the miniseries Inventing Anna, and used the cash she received for the show to pay back some of the victims of her con.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
